The Importance of Marketing in Healthcare IT

I spent last week in New Orleans at the Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference and enjoyed mixing and mingling with the amazing marketing and PR professionals found in that community. It’s a truly unique conference where attendees collaborate, share, and sincerely care for each other’s success. I feel privileged to be a member of the community. I was lucky to kick off this year’s event and I started with this slide: I imagine many people reading this might not agree. However, marketing in and of itself is not evil. Sure, everything can be evil. Technology can be good or evil. People can be good or evil. Healthcare organizations can be good or evil. However, that doesn’t mean that just because something can be used for evil that it is evil. That’s true for marketing which can get a bad rap. As they say, one rotten apple spoils the bunch. The reality is that healthcare needs more effective healthcare IT marketing. One of the biggest problems I see when I talk to people in healthcare IT is that many healthcare IT professionals don’t know the available tools, technologies, solutions, and vendors that are out there. They don’t know how these different companies can help them solve their most pressing problems. There’s a lot of health IT professionals that are doing the best they can with what they have, but they don’t have an easy way to know what solutions they really need. Most are so busy with the operational challenges ...
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